Quotes About Inspiration

You know, it's quite exciting to watch a professional at work if you bother to look. I mean going at a job he does really well. You look at him with new eyes from then on. In this odd sort of way I was seeing Moon for the first time.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.

All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the volcano's mouth, they spurt in to the sky, then fall again. In the quivering air, like gelatine, the sounds trace their bubble paths. Can you imagine that?

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

Everything the men taught me that summer fell under the loose catchall of confidence. They taught me the importance of confidence. That was all. But that was enough. That, I later realized, was everything.

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world.

All this searching and longing for the secret of being a good man, and all I needed to do was follow the example of one very good woman.

J.R. Moehringer

Do you know why God invented writers? Because He loves a good story. And He doesn't give a damn about words. Words are the curtain we've hung between Him and our true selves. Try not to think about the words. Don't strain for the perfect sentence. There's no such thing. Writing is guesswork. Every sentence is an educated guess, the reader's as much as yours. Think about that the next time you curl a piece of paper into your typewriter.

Do you know why God invented writers? Because he loves a good story. And he doesn't give a damn about the words. Words are the curain we've hung between him and our true selves. Try not to think about the words. Don't strin for the perfect sentence. There's no such thing. Writing si guesswork. Every sentence is an educated guess, the readers as much as yours.

Every book is a miracle,' Bill said. 'Every book represents a moment when someone sat quietly - and that quiet is part of the miracle, make no mistake - and tried to tell the rest of us a story.

And this, our life exempt from public haunts, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.

Begeisterung ist keine Heringsware, die man einpökelt auf einige Jahre.

When I'm supposed to be writing, I end up making up names," says Lucas of the mercenary's christening. "I have a couple of little books that are lists of names. Whenever I think of a name, whenever I'm in the shower, I'm with friends, or see a sign, I write it down in my little book. So when I have a new character, sometimes I'll go down the list and pick a name out that seems to fit that particular character.

Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Aberjhani can write about anything, and give it uncommon beauty.

Ja seda tahan ma teile ütelda: meid, eestlasi, on niivõrd vähe, et iga eestlase siht - või vähemalt iga Wikmani poisi siht peab olema surematus!

The books so fired me with the desire for travel, adventure, romance, that I was miserable most of the time.

I'm going to write about them as I took them -- with a smile.

Lazy people should observe a colony of ants and learn from their diligence. Prov. 6.7 No one is there to organize them or tell them what to do. They have no commander or ruler giving them daily orders.